Ezekiel:4

---

Seeker Overlay ON

* Thou therefore O son of man Take thee a tablet , and lay it before thee , and pourtray thereon a city , even Jerusalem . * Then shalt thou lay siege against it And bud up against it a siege-wall And cast up against it , a mound , And set against it camps , And place against it battering-rams , round about . * Thou , therefore take time a pan of iron , and set it for a wall of iron , between thee and the city , then shalt thou direct thy face against it and it shall come into siege and thou shalt lay siege to it , a sign , shall it be to the house of Israel . * Thou , therefore lie thou on thy left side , and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it , during the number of the days which thou shalt lie thereon , shalt thou bear their punishment . * I therefore have appointed thee the years of their punishment , by the number of days a hundred and ninety days , so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel . * And when thou hast ended these , then shalt thou lie , on thy right side . a second time , and shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah , forty days , one day for each year , have I appointed thee . * Thus then unto the siege of Jerusalem , shalt thou direct thy face , with thine arm made bare , so shalt thou prophesy against it . * And lo ! I have laid upon thee-bands , and thou shalt not turn thee from thy one side to thine other , until thou have ended the days of thy siege . * Thou , therefore , take thee wheat and barley and peas and lentils and millet and spelt , and put them in one vessel , and make them ready for thee as bread , during the number of days which thou art lying on thy side . a hundred and ninety days , shalt thou eat it ; * and thy food which thou shalt eat shall be by weight twenty shekels a day , from time to time , shalt thou eat it ; * and water by measure , shalt thou drink the sixth part of a hin ,-from time to time shalt thou drink ; * and as a barley cake , shalt thou eat it , and the same with dung proceeding from man , shalt thou bake , before their eyes . * Then said Yahweh , In like manner , shall the sons of Israel eat their bread defiled , among the nations whither I will drive them . * Then said , I , Ah ! My Lord . Yahweh , lo ! my person , hath not been defiled : neither of what hath died of itself nor of what hath been torn in pieces : have I eaten , from my youthful days even unto now , neither hath come into my mouth the flesh of a foul thing . * So then he said unto me , See I have granted thee cows dung for mans dung , and thou shalt prepare thy bread thereupon . * And he said unto me , Son of man Behold me ! breaking the staff of bread in Jerusalem , So shall they eat bread by weight and with anxious care , And water by measure , and in astonishment , shall they drink : * that they may lack bread and water and be astonished one with another , and pine away in their punishment .

---